Help with TimeNet

Greetings,

I purchased TimeNet as a part of the recent MacFriendly bundle. I had given the trial version a quick look and thought that it might be away to get me out of a somewhat kludgy Microsoft Access invoicing system that remains one of the only reasons I have to run Windows today.

The problem with the Access system is that it works for what I do, better than anything I've seen.

I do consulting work for a single client and generally work on up to several different projects for this client on any given day. I bill every two weeks, so I need a way to generate invoices for the prior two weeks work.

With the Access system, I was able to set up Clients, and then configure Projects under the Clients. When I do billable work, I enter a new record in the system for each project I work on for a given day with the time spent on that project and a description of the work performed. Most days I have one entry for one project, but some days have multiple entries - one for each project that I worked on. I record working time in .25 hour increments. The separate projects are important because at the end of the 2 week billing period I have to provide a detail day by day invoice, then summarize total hours spent on each project. These projects span months and years. All of this is very easy to do on the kludgy Access timesheet/invoice system, but I'm trying to migrate to all-Mac!

At very first glance during the trial, it seemed that TimeNet would allow me to duplicate this workflow, however now I'm afraid that I didn't test it thoroughly enough. It now appears that I will have to create all new projects for every billing period and even then I still won't get the reporting granularity I need without doing a WHOLE lot more work than I currently have to do with the Access system.

Any ideas? I'll still keep TimeNet around if I can't use it like this, but clearly I won't be able to stop using the Access system unless there's a way for me to do the same things with TimeNet.

Jack